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It’s time to update some of my sticks

Jangofatt — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:41:58 +0000

I noticed that I’ve been accumulating a few more sticks and I’m at the point now that it’s time to personalize them and give them that old Pineconeattack hurrah. One thing I hate more than anything is being an owner of a generic run of a mill mass-produced joystick. For the love of Mike, [...]

Tenno goes to EVO… Day 2

Tenno — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:46 +0000

HERE BE EVO!

So I went to EVO for about an hour.

Yup. Just one. And for a bunch of you, you’re probably all like, ‘Whoaaaaaa there Tenno! You were at the gaming Mecca of Las Vegas! You fricking live there even! WHAT THE! HELL!’

Hey baby, I’m a rolling stone. And by that I mean [...]

Just a reminder: EVO 2010 is almost here…

Tenno — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:10:10 +0000

It’s in sunny ass Las Vegas, like normal. Why? ’cause Vegas is awesome!

We’ll be there.

We’ll be bringing machines for people to play on.

We’ll be taking pictures and interviewing people.

We’ll be sponsoring someone whose in the Super Street Fighter 4 matches (and you better fucking win…).

We’ll be buying exclusive Meatbun EVO shirts.

We’ll be all like, cursing and [...]

Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Redesign

Jangofatt — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:35:58 +0000

The net is calling it the ‘Slim’. I’m calling it sexy.

Microsoft pulled a Sega this year by unveiling the newly design Xbox 360 console which should hit store shelves this Friday. Megaton shocker! The rumors of a redesign Xbox 360 have been circulated all year but no one was expecting it [...]

Super Street Fighter IV Marathon

Jangofatt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:11:09 +0000

After picking up my copy of Super Street Fighter IV and playing some with Decepticreep & Baldy, I’ve come to a new appreciation to one of Capcom’s greatest franchise. I was super excited about the reboot of the Street Fighter franchise and was pleasantly surprised that my skills in Super Street Fighter II Turbo [...]

Turtle Beach Headset Review: Ear Force X1

Jangofatt — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:17:16 +0000

After busting my ass with my day job and scoring some extra cash, I decided it was a perfect time to treat myself to something I would never buy otherwise: a high quality gaming headset. I was getting tired of my wireless headset and I needed a way to enjoy my games LOUD without waking [...]

Super Late Mass Effect Review

Baldy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:27:31 +0000

As I’ve mentioned a time or two, I am a bit of a Bioware fanboy. I used to chug along to Baldur’s Gate with my massive Pentium 200, and its 64MB of RAM and 8 meg vidcard back in the bad old days. I still rate Neverwinter Nights as a vastly superior multiplayer game [...]

Wii Energizer Induction Charge Station Review

Jangofatt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:20:55 +0000

One of my major complaints about the Wii is that fact that the damn controllers zap the hell out of my batteries. I’ve tried the rechargeable batteries route but they always seem to drain when the controllers are not in use. I’ve avoided the conventional rechargers because they are mostly cheap looking and most [...]

U.S. Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Spot

Decepticreep — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:53:52 +0000

It’s like the weeaboo Indian in [...]

Rocket Fizz: Making Sin City Sweeter, One Bottle At A Time.

Jangofatt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:27:30 +0000

My work phone rings and I struggle to hear Decepticreep over the beginning of Modern Warfare 2, I hear him excited with joy and pure innocent exhilaration. Intrigued, I paused the game and listen closely. “Dude I found this awesome place! I’ll be over in a few minutes.” Curious, I waited for [...]

Club Nintendo: Zelda Posters

Jangofatt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:41:34 +0000

Last Friday I was greeted at my door was a cardboard tube lying on its side. Curiously I rushed inside to start picking way at the packing tape frantically wanting to expose the delicious colorful center.

I didn’t order any thing or did I? After exposing the carefully packed parcel, I was happy to see [...]

‘Pinball Hall of Fame’ has moved into it’s new home.

Jangofatt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:51:20 +0000

Hey there boys & girls, changes are a comin’ but this doesn’t involve pimples and hair growing in strange places, it does involve getting bigger and moving out. You see Tim Arnold, the proprietor of the local pinball museum, was having to deal with the growing pains of running a pinball mueusum inside [...]

Me! Me! Me!

Baldy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:14:48 +0000

I truly enjoy the World of Warcraft. It’s the ultimate sandbox, the ultimate platformer, a decent RPG, and the defining MMO. Sadly it’s also a social experiment. And while WoW has progressed greatly (20 whole levels worth) and drastically opened up its end game content from the early, halcyon days, one simple fact [...]

PlayStation Network Sale on PSP Games.

Jangofatt — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:03:54 +0000

While I’m not keen on the PSP Go with it’s steep prince point, but I am a fan of discounted games. For the celebration of the PSP GO launch, NIS, D3 & SNKP have dropped prices on several games from their library for your gaming pleasure, so get them while they’re cheap.

Hopefully over time, the [...]

Teknoman in (US ver.) Tastunoko vs. Capcom

Jangofatt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:09:43 +0000

So over at Gamespot, they have a nice little collection of screen-shots of the first of four new characters to be released in the North American release of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. The new character is Teknoman, or Tekkaman Blade, as he is known in Japan. That does that mean to you? It means we can [...]

Left4Undead Singing 2: My Lawn Haz Z0MB13Z INN1T!!1!

Tenno — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:42:39 +0000

What is up with catchy songs and zombies lately anyways? The whole PCA crew is rushing will-nilly after the high score in I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1 and now I just saw a music video for PopCap’s ‘Plants vs. Zombies’. I’m not sure what one I like best. Sure, both are easily attainable [...]

Jango’s Surprising Prize.

Jangofatt — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:24:17 +0000

Yesterday after a long day, I was greeted with a tube sitting in front of my door. I was so exhausted I almost stepped on the darn thing. It a good thing I didn’t. So today, feeling a bit more refreshed, I decided to see what kind of a [...]

How To Mod The Madcatz Fight Stick with Seimitsu Parts.

Jangofatt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:31:24 +0000

The fighting craze is back in an upturn for the mainstream but you can take advantage of this trend by picking up some of the best joysticks out for the North American market. Hands down one of the best joysticks out right now for the North American market is the Madcatz Tournament Edition [...]

Let’s go out the movies…

Jangofatt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:53:04 +0000

Site friend and resident game designer, Chris Ainsworth, has a very comprehensive list of this summer’s classic movies screening from the Tropicana Cinema & Aliante Station over at his site. This has been something that I’m been wishing forever to happen and low and behold, the local theater right by my house has [...]

Weekend Wrap Up: BotCon ’09 Recap

Jangofatt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:41:02 +0000

With little persuasion, Decepticreep convinced me to go with him to this year’s Botcon that was in Pasadena, Ca for the 25th Anniversary of Transformers. Good times ensued. Both of us were being cheap so the deal was, Decepticreep paid for the rooms while I had to pay for the [...]

EGM is Coming Back!

Jangofatt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:55:02 +0000

I found the press release when I was surfing the web. Freaking cool news. It looks like Steve Harris the founder of EGM was able to score the rights to start printing the mag once again. The best new is that the magazine will be away from a corporate giant and will become, what I [...]

Ghostbuster Game Opening is Sweet

Jangofatt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:16:57 +0000

OMG, do want! I can already for see the future, this will be on my birthday [...]

Oboro Muramasa: Must play Wii Game of the Year?

Jangofatt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:07:36 +0000

Waaay back in ’07, Tenno wrote a little article about this slick looking sidescroller game by Vanillaware who are probably most known by their more recent game Odin Sphere for the PS2. All I can say is that I’m glad as hell that I never sold my Wii because this is the kind of game that [...]

Punch Out!! Wii Trailer

Jangofatt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:36:53 +0000

YES! [...]

Live Chat with Steve Wiebe April 15th

Jangofatt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:24:38 +0000

Mr. King of Kong himself, Steve Wiebe will be participating in the community chat over at Coinopspace.com on April 15 at 7:00-8:00 pm PST.

I’ve never been available for Jeff Rothe’s previous community chats but dude, this is Steve-Freakin’-Wiebe we’re talking about. Gamer’s guilt has been eating away at me over my man-crush with Mr Wiebe since [...]

Whew. That was entertaining…

Tenno — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:30:26 +0000

Seems that the company that manages our servers didn’t notice that one of their customers uploaded a bad script which (aided by communism) rocket launched their logic machines into oblivion. Perhaps they divided by zero?

Either way, we are back up and running, and minus the deletion of this weeks Pinekast!, which i will have [...]

LittleBig Contra: Whoa!

Jangofatt — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:07:00 +0000

[Ninja Theft from Temjin99's Youtube]

LittleBig Contra is a NeoGAF collaborative project aimed at delivering the definitive Contra experience to LittleBigPlanet. Our goal was to recreate each of the 8 stages of Contra from the NES using the tools available to us in the LittleBigPlanet level editor.

There are 8 stages in total and 7 authors on the [...]

SEGA Megadrive Ultimate Collection Limited Edition LP. DO WANT!

Jangofatt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:20:01 +0000

I tend to not cover internet auction but this LP is defiantly going to be the exception. The modern tech geek in me wants to ignore this clumsy obsolete flat disc of spiral vinyl yet the romantic collector wants to embrace the warm analog reverberations that flow from the petite point of the [...]

Batman:Arkham Asylum Trailer

Jangofatt — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:14:33 +0000

It’s so nice to hear the real Batman and Joker. The fact that Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill’s on board has (mostly) convinced me that this might actually be the first good Batman game since Batman on the NES. Please Eidos, don’t fuck up Batman like you did to poor old Laura.

Batman: [...]

Taito’s Ice Cold Beer Review

Jangofatt — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:34:43 +0000

I’ve come across some weird and interesting coin-op games throughout my short years in this hobby but I love it when you find that proverbial diamond in the rough of quirky awesomeness. Taito’s Ice Cold Beer is probably one of the more appealing non-pinball games I’ve come across at the Pinball Hall of [...]

Weekend Wrap-up – Street Fighter A-Plenty (Edit!)

Ancient Flounder — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:10:47 +0000

Edit: Re-uploaded the cell phone videos, since I found a working conversion program. They don’t look like absolute dog-shit anymore. Enjoy!

Well, what I figured would occur did: my first match-up resulted in me getting creamed. I could make excuses about how I was going up against tournament-level players and how Sagat is top-tier….and [...]

The NEW King of Fighters XII Trailer is Impressive. Most Impressive.

Jangofatt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:55:01 +0000

Oh my God…

Positive:

-High Def King of Fighters with smooth animation to boot -Raiden in a KoF game? ‘Nuff said. (The first Fatal Fury don’t count) -The return of Andy Bogard & Leona to the KoF Series -New cancellation moves looks interesting -Iori finally has new threads

Negative:

-Ash is still a homoerotic fruit cake. -This game is a sausage-fest. [...]

King of Fighter XII Loke Test Videos

Jangofatt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:58:27 +0000

Alright kiddos, looks like thereâ€™s a nice massive upload from wx1682 of some neat location videos of actual gameplay of the other high definition two dimensional fighters royal: King of Fighters XII. Come on, you remember KoF 12 right? You know the huge fighter built from scratch and hand animated in gorgeous high definition [...]

Rockman 2: Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate NES Destiny

Jangofatt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:27:32 +0000

You know if Dr Wiley had all of his Robot Master bum rush Megaman that would have gotten the job done right? Wrong. Megaman kicks their asses and is taking names. Dr Wiley is fucked because he just pissed off the Blue Bomber. For an even more impressive vid, check the video [...]

Weekend Wrap Up: Largest Get-Together Yet! Next Time We Need to Do a Tourney…

Jangofatt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:59:33 +0000

A much planned and yet still an on the whim evening, the local Neo-Geo gamers were able to gather together with the largest turned out to date which can only be described as a big success.

The evening started with everyone meeting at the Pinball Hall of Fame for some pinball action. It gave everyone plenty [...]

Boxing Tonight on a Gameboy

Jangofatt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:28:55 +0000

This cool ass video was all done using the Gameboy hardware. Animation and music was all sync in real time and just because Nintendo hates on the Gameboy, doesn’t mean the fans will. Also, I like this song…

[sidabitball [...]

Mother 3 English Patch is a GO!

Jangofatt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Alright! The English patch has finally arrived. Go download this patch and go play some Mother 3. I’m still waiting for my GBA rom cart to arrive so I’m just going to wait untill that wonderful pirate rom cart is in the clutches of my chubby hands. So jump over [...]

Mother 3 is Translated, Jango is Jaded & Water is Wet…

Jangofatt — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:36:32 +0000

So Iâ€™m being incredibly underwhelmed by this yearâ€™s releases for all major consoles. I donâ€™t care about Fable II, Dead Space or Far Cry 2. Hell, the only game that Iâ€™m mildly interested in is Gears of War 2 and I might pick that game up on release date, maybeâ€¦ (Okay [...]

Jangofatt’s New Personalized Plates

Jangofatt — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:05:26 +0000

There comes a time when you have the urge to customize and express yourself. Most of the time Iâ€™m lazy but with a helpful nudge from my wife awesome things can happen. My wife was browsing through the DMV website to see what customizable plates cost after discovering that they only cost [...]

Rumor: Is Metal Slug HD in the works?

Jangofatt — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:23:59 +0000

Holy crap this project would rule if this actually happens. Even though King of Fighters XII is not out and playable here in the States, I still have a shit ton of faith that SNKP will keep the 2D torch alive and well with their recreation of the KoF series. Well the [...]

Pier Solar coming to a Sega Genesis/CD near you!

Jangofatt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:54:14 +0000

Dust off your Sega Genesis and Sega CD; I discovered some amazing news for you.

It looks like a small but dedicated group of homebrew programmers will be releasing a new RPG called Pier Solar for not only just a Genesis game but also combining with the power of the Sega CD. This will be [...]

Awesome Punch Out!! KO Videos

Jangofatt — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:01:08 +0000

Decepticreep was over this weekend and we weâ€™re going to start on our grandiose quest to defeat Megaman 1-8, but I donâ€™t really want to get into that story, Iâ€™ll leave that for DC; instead I was working on video capture off of the olâ€™ Mac. You know, play emulators and just record [...]

Holy Shit: YYZ

Jangofatt — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:27:14 +0000

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Blue Bomber is back in another fighter…

Jangofatt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:51:58 +0000

Adding more excitement that I have for Tatsunko vs. Capcom, Megaman has been confirmed for this game, yet itâ€™s not the 8-bit pixilated throwback Megaman that we all know and love but the less popular Megaman Volnutt from the Megaman Legend series. Iâ€™m not terribly upset because I just excited about seeing the [...]

It’s Muppet Time!

Jangofatt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:02:57 +0000

Perusing some of my usual gaming webcomics, I was reintroduced to the Muppets today, but now they’re taking over the interweb. Damn, they never get old. Lolz..

What does this have to with gaming? Not a damn thing, so enjoy. [...]

Megaman 9, now with 100% awesome.

Jangofatt — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:06:11 +0000

I think by now any gamer who considers themselves to have any sort of retro flair will agree with me about this next statement. Megaman 1 (and most early Megaman covers) sucked big balls. Oh my, just look at that header. Why is Megaman freaking yellow and blue? WTF is he carrying? A pistol! [...]

Who watches the Watchmen?

Baldy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:10:59 +0000

I do! Some may want to wait until they see Batman for this piece of celluloid gold on the big screen. I lacked the willpower and wanted some screen caps. Here’s a list of what I saved them as; if you’re so inclined, watch the trailer and guess where I hit the print screen button [...]

Holy Shit, Final Fantasy XIII is Official for the 360

Jangofatt — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:27:55 +0000

Whoa, way to drop a freakin’ HUGE exclusive Sony with your year and a half of slow sales.Â Good job, bravo…

–Jangofatt

[via Joystiq: Final Fantasy XIII coming to Xbox 360]

[Update: Here's a pood quality video. It's weird hearing the Xbox 360 orb sound after the [...]

Cardboard Halo Weapons

Jangofatt — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:22:00 +0000

As much as I want to mock and make fun of this kid, I’m actually really impressed with his mad skillz with cardboard construction of every single freakin’ Halo 3 weapons. Man, his video is sooo much more interesting than this video. At least this kid used his imagination and [...]

Decepticreep-1, Jangofatt-0

Jangofatt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:17:31 +0000

Congrats to Decepticreep for winning the $100 Game Stop gift card give away!!!

I was driving from Robertos, a southwestern â€œlocalâ€ Mexican dive for lunch, when I heard CheapyD mention Decepticreepâ€™s was the winner of their give-away and to make things even better, I heard Decepticreepâ€™s ohhh so sexy voice about how he traded a [...]